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Sr. Hardware Design Engineer, LEO KMM FPGA

Amazon

Amazon

Other Engineering, Design
San Diego, CA, USA
Posted on Mar 27, 2026

Description

Amazon Leo is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world.

Come work at Amazon!

As a Sr. Hardware Design Engineer, you will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary team to design innovative product solutions. You will work closely with colleagues throughout Leo's inter-disciplinary team in order to drive key aspects of product definition, execution and optimization. You must be responsive, flexible and able to succeed within a collaborative and fast-paced environment.

As a member of the team, you will be responsible for designing RF subsystems for use in space. Must be able to work effectively cross-functionally with multiple disciplines.
In this role you will:
• Decompose system level requirements into realizable hardware requirements.
• Design and develop a solution that meets these requirements.
• Simulate and optimize RF circuits, perform schematic capture, and oversee PCB layout.
• Build up test bench for design verification.
• Evaluate and optimize design in the lab to demonstrate solution meets all requirements.
• Work with RF system, power, software, mechanical thermal, reliability and compliance teams to ensure solution integrates with overall platform requirements.

Export Control Requirement:
Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.



Key job responsibilities
• Will work cross-functionally on collaboration to fluently engage with diverse engineering disciplines, effectively advocate for hardware system requirements, board bring up , pcba assembly, and ensure alignment for overall system success.
• Works closely with the production test team to define DVT, Qualification and production test requirements
• Develop, designs, and test of ASIC and subsystems and systems.
• Derive HW specifications for the KMM system
• Performs root cause analysis on products, technical problems, processes and documentation.
• Assess feasibility of various designs in support of architectural definition
• Participate in subsystem design and prototyping, schematic capture, prototype bring-up and debugging, hardware bug tracking, functional verification, and signal characterization
• Evaluate and characterize new technology, prototypes and RF components
• Support manufacturing engineers on production testing of RF avionics components and systems
• Evaluates systems and directs design modifications.
• Troubleshoots and repairs circuits and fixtures.